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Another Nigerian has been appointed by the U S. President, Joe Biden, into his cabinet
US President Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born, Enoh Titilayo Ebong, to the post of Director, United States Trade and Development Agency. Her...
U.S. citizen and his Nigerian accomplice, both pilots, convicted of trafficking multi-ton loads of cocaine on board an aircraft
Two men — Jean-Claude Okongo Landji and Jibril Adamu – have been convicted of conspiring to traffic five kilograms and more of...
NNPC’s N620bn intervention in road rehabilitation gets FEC’s nod
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday received the approval of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to intervene in what it...
CBN alerts of fraudsters, fake eNaira social media handles
Barely three days after the launch of the eNaira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has uncovered the activities of...
Inequalities, unfair policies responsible for growing unrests by the people, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the growing social unrest globally to inequalities and unfair policies that exclude majority from opportunities for participation....
Breaking news: Nigeria’s digital currency, eNaira, launch: 200,000 wallets downloaded in 24 hours
Barely 24 hours after Nigeria’s digital currency eNaira was unveiled by the Federal Government, Nigerians have downloaded almost 200,000 wallets. Persecondnews findings...
Insecurity, gangrape: Sex workers in Benue device new strategies of protecting themselves — PSN exclusive
Following the state of insecurity in Benue State and across the country, Markurdi sex workers have devised means of safeguarding themselves. The...
FG pushes harmonisation of salaries in civil service till 2022 end
By the end of 2022, a timeline to finalize the harmonisation of salaries of civil servants in ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs)...
Kanu: UN queries Nigerian Govt over his “illegal rendition” from Kenya to Nigeria, alleged torture in custody
The United Nations has expressed serious concern over what it called reported illegal rendition of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of...
Gombe Reps attack Sen. Goje, say activities subversive, anti-people
The heat has been turned on Senator Danjuma Goje, a former Gombe governor, for his alleged plot to subvert a bill passed...
NDLEA boss to Strike Force Corps: Smoke them out, deal ruthlessly with drug barons, cartels
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) may have declared an NDLEA drug war on drug barons and cartels in the country as...
Nasarawa Varsity hosts international confab on security and health communication Oct. 28-29
A two-day international development communication conference on Strategic Security and Health Communication is being organized by the Institute of Development Communication (ISDEVCOM),...
Nigeria’s digital currency, eNaira, debuts, the first in Africa
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday launched the much anticipated eNaira digital currency, after it was postponed from the Oct....
Just in: Another military putsch in Sudan, soldiers sack transitional government
A coup by the Sudanese military has now fully unraveled after it announced the dissolution of the transitional government headed by prime...
International Criminal Court accepts SERAP’s request, set to probe schoolchildren abductions, masterminds
“SERAP had in the petition dated 4 September 2021 urged the ICC prosecutor, Mr Karim A. A. Khan, QC, to “push for those...
Gunmen blast Oyo prisons wall, free 837 inmates, 262 recaptured
Following the blasting of the Nigeria Correctional Service in Oyo, Oyo State, on Friday night, no fewer than 837 awaiting trial inmates...
